Jake had to burn his dead grandmother while he was a toddler.
roxy’s drunken escapades and her trials to become sober are sad enough.
calliope is stuck in a body she hates.
mituna lost his fucking sanity- imagine how Latula feels?
Damara went from Disney princess to Scarlett woman, was cheated on by the only person she could trust, and went nuts. Oh, and bullied immensely for it.
Nepeta had to watch Equius die.
Jane went through two mental breakdowns, believed that her father was dead, went through an involuntary drug trip, DIED, CAME BACK TO LIFE and then came under the mind control of Sea Hitler in one day. (Which also happened to be her birthday.)
Terezi killed one of her best friends and is still plagued by guilt three years later.
Mituna had the shittiest life on both Alternia and Beforus out of all the trolls.
If you only saw 90% of sadstuck you wouldn’t know any of this though. All you would pick up on is STRIDER STRIDER DIRKJAKE DAVESPRITE BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH.
Tavros had to deal with losing his ability to walk and losing a lot of his favorite activities like FLARPing with his friends after he was thrown off of a cliff by a girl that he liked, before later getting bullied by her for the disability that she caused, and treated like it was his fault.
Terezi had to deal with one of her best friends Blinding her out of spite, as well as learning how to see again. She then ended up losing just about everything; Her love for Justice, her friends, and now her eyesight, which was her last memory of her Lusus.
Aradia had to go through being killed by her mind-controlled Boyfriend, suffer being a Ghost for a while, before getting put into a body that had been programmed to manipulate her emotions in a certain way, before having to die once again just to be alive.
Gamzee, who had been alone for almost his whole childhood, only got to see his Lusus when he either decided to stop by extremely briefly [if at all] during his childhood, or when he was pretty much dead from a spear to the back and washed up on the beach in front of his house.
Sollux had to deal with the pain of knowing that he killed his Girlfriend while in a mind-controlled, mind-honey induced haze.
Homestuck is fucking sAD MAN AND WE FOCUS ON STRIDER MANPAIN.
And lest we forget: